Julius John Lankes 'J. J. Lankes'

Plowman (Open Cutting)

Julius John Lankes' original wood engraving, "Plowman" (Open Cutting) has an interesting history. Between 1915 and 1930 the Japan Paper Company commissioned artists to create woodcuts, wood engravings and other designs in order to promote their hand-made papers. Contributing artists included Rudolph Ruzicka, D. B. Updike, W. A. Dwiggins and J. J. Lankes.

Another impression of "Plowman" will be found in the collection of the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas. Their impression is printed on cream laid paper whereas this impression is on mulberry (rice) paper. The museum impression of "Plowman" also bears the words, "woodcut by J. J. Lankes -- Japan Paper Company", along the lower margin. As this original impression lacks this wording and contains extra large margins it is probably a proof impression. It is a fine, original example of the wood engraved art created by the American artist, Julius John Lankes.

Original Wood Engraving by the American artist, Julius John Lankes.

Plowman (Open Cutting)

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Lankes, Julius John 'J. J. Lankes' (Buffalo, NY, 1884 - Durham, NC, 1960)
#	Image	Title & Artist	Medium	Date	Notes	-
01-		Plowman (Open Cutting) by Julius John Lankes 'J. J. Lankes'	Original Wood Engraving	1927	Published by the Japan Paper Company	Sold
02.-		Sunday Afternoon by Julius John Lankes 'J. J. Lankes'	Original Woodcut	1936	Published by the American Artists Group, New York	Sold

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Title:	Plowman (Open Cutting)
Artist:	Lankes, Julius John 'J. J. Lankes' (Buffalo, NY, 1884 - Durham, NC, 1960)
Date:	1927
Medium:	Original Wood Engraving
Publisher:	Japan Paper Company
Note:	Julius John Lankes 'J. J. Lankes': An American master of the woodcut, Julius John Lankes graduated from the Buffalo Commercial and Electro-Mechanical Institute in 1902. Working as a draftsman he continued his studies at the Art Students League of Buffalo and at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School. J. J. Lankes created his first original woodcut in 1917. In 1923 Lankes first met and worked with the great American poet, Robert Frost. During the following forty years he produced a great number of woodcuts to illustrate Frost’s poetry as well as the work of other authors such as Roark Bradford and August Derleth. Lankes was also the author of "A Woodcut Manual" (1932) and taught woodcut techniques at Wells College in Aurora, New York, from 1932 to 1939.
	Julius John Lankes was a full member of the Society of American Graphic Artists, the American Artists Professional League, the Print Makers’ Society of California, the Print Society of England and an Associate of the National Academy of Design. Today his fine woodcuts and wood engravings are included in such collections as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, the Library of Congress, Washington, and the British Museum, London.
	In 1934 the American novelist, Sherwood Anderson, wrote, “I like things in my dining-room that arouse, that awakens thoughts in me. So I have these Lankes woodcuts... I honor him for his realism. The man has feeling. He has that odd quality, so infinitely valuable, the feeling for things, for the reflected life in things.” *
Reference:	* The Library of Virginia Exhibition, "Block. Ink. Paper. The Prints of J. J. Lankes and Charles W. Smith", http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:dR5FTdc-kcUJ:www.lva.lib.va.us/whoweare?exhi...
	G. B. Opitz, "Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers", New York, Apollo Books, 1987, p. 610.
Size:	2 7/8 X 5 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed on hand-made, mulberry (rice) paper and with full, deckled margins as printed for the Japan Paper Company in 1927. Signed in the block with the artist's monogram to the lower left. This impression of "Plowman" (Open Cutting) is in excellent condition throughout and stands as a fine, original example of the wood engraved art of J. J. Lankes.
Subject:	Julius John Lankes, J. J. Lankes, "Plowman" (Open Cutting), original wood engraving, Japan Paper Company, American masters of the woodcut, Robert Frost, Sherwood Anderson, "A Woodcut Manual", Wells College, Aurora.
Price:	Sold - The price is no longer available.
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